The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCXXXV

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ⅭⅭⅩⅩⅩⅤ. James Madison to G.L. Turberville.[1]

New York, Novr. 2, 1788.

I am not of the number if there be any such, who think the Constitution lately adopted a faultless work. On the contrary there are amendments wch I wished it to have received before it issued from the place in which it was formed. …

Having witnessed the difficulties and dangers experienced by the first Convention, which assembled under every propitious circumstance, I should tremble for the result of a Second, meeting in present temper of America and under all the disadvantages I have mentioned.

  1. G. Hunt, Writings of James Madison, Ⅴ, 298, 300.